A powerful cold front is rushing in from the west, with storms, heavy rain and even snow. The Austrian weather service GeoSphere Austria expects up to 50 centimeters of fresh snow.
Winter road conditions are to be expected on higher pass roads in Tyrol, Vorarlberg, Salzburg and western Styria. The weather in Austria calms down on Thursday, and then the temperatures will rise again above average to maximum values of 20 to 26 degrees by the weekend. According to a model forecast, a polar cold flood will flood Austria from April 16th and bring snow and sleet showers up to 500 meters. The first hot day (at least 30 degrees) of the year was measured in Bruck an der Murr in Styria on Sunday (April 7, 2024) Ten days earlier than the previous record on April 17, 1934 in the city of Salzberg. Austria's glaciers are shrinking at a pace, the situation in the ski areas looks “absolutely miserable”